IBM Creates Servers Specifically Targeting AI

When living and operating in a market largely dominated by a vendor that isn't you, the strategy you must deploy is one of focus. In the early days of Power, IBM tried to take on Intel head to head and that just wasn't working. You can understand why IBM thought it could do this; it was once the most powerful company in the world. But, like Microsoft, Intel's strength largely came from providing technology to firms like IBM, and IBM's decline in the late 1980s and early 1990s not only weakened it substantially, it collectively strengthened other firms. Much like AMD, which has always been weaker than Intel, IBM needed to pick its battles, and given that the company still pretty much owns the market for enterprise-class AI with Watson, and that this segment is slated to become the most lucrative in the industry for servers over the next decade, it chose wisely to make this one of its critical areas of focus.